Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DADS sponsored two gun-buyback programs last winter, offering up to $50 for a working weapon, with no questions asked. On both days, they ran out of money within half an hour. Total haul: 588 guns, some turned in by juveniles. "It amazed me," says C.R. Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. In May MAD DADS staged another buyback after sending 100,000 flyers to nine school districts. The take: 1,124 guns, which will be welded into a monument by a local artist. Among them was Doug's 12-gauge shotgun. "I figured...
...eyed skeletal children dying by the thousands in Somali villages. In their place are equally troubling images of shell-shattered civilians and Mogadishu mobs, fists raised in anger against the mounting violence. "It is more dangerous today in Mogadishu than at any time during the civil war," says Howard Bell, country director for the relief agency CARE...
...streets of big cities, high schoolers will be engaging in their usual vehicular mating ritual. Guys in long baggy shorts leaning against their Jeeps; girls strolling by in laughing pairs or trios; the pumping music on the Jeep stereos expressing everything that's unsaid. And what will be playing? Bell Biv DeVoe. Dr. Dre. And this album. Conscious of history, the Tonyies have made themselves a band of the here...
...omissions are less distracting than his unwillingness to go deeper into the era, especially since his authoritative tone suggests rather than delivers new and significant insights. The Fifties is more than an entertainment, but to borrow an image from novelist Peter DeVries, it puts you in a diving bell and takes you down three feet...
CYBERTECH: What Ever Happened to Ma Bell...